The B-52's - Funplex

This single could well pave the way for one of the comebacks of 2008. This first single from their new album of the same name, is the first release in 16 years from the B-52’s.

The song is instantly recognisable as a B-52’s hit due to the duel vocals of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, with the trademark sneering nerdy voice of Fred Schneider, delivering his one-liners.

It’s a lot of fun, starting off sounding like the Dandy Warhol’s, before the B-52’s sound is rubber stamped all over your ears. The song is the bands take on consumerism and the mall culture in America, the Funplex being place that the B-52’s take diet pills, meet each other by the ATM machine and have their hearts broken.

This is an absolutely brilliant single, which puts a lot of their dance-rock contemporaries to shame. There’s no doubt that it’ll get the B-52’s music back on the dance floor where it truly belongs. Fantastic stuff.

The single is out on the 10th of March, buy it.


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